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v_95
everything okay?

jjungkookie
yeah the taxi is making it's way back to the hotel

jjungkookie
i coulda just taken the bus yk

jjungkookie
you shouldn't have gotten me a taxi AND paid for it🥺😔

v_95
oh be quiet im making you sure you get back safe and sound after trekking all the way here

jjungkookie
trek i-

jjungkookie
tae the bus isn't dangerous and i coulda caught the last one of the night

v_95
well never mind that now you're already in a taxi

jjungkookie
fine😪

jjungkookie
you back at your place yet?

v_95
nah just getting close to building

jjungkookie
what took so long???

v_95
kinda just hung around the streets after getting you outta here

v_95
kept staring at that picture you let me take and smiling like an idiot

jjungkookie
you didn't even show me it 😤

v_95
you said it was for my eyes only angel

jjungkookie
anGeL ohmygod someone hELP
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jjungkookie
okay but that doesn't mean mY OWN EYES can't ;-;

v_95
fine here silly

v_95

jjungkookie
ew never mind i wish I hadn't seen that

v_95
you're delusional

v_95
that right there is model material

v_95
also im assuming you want updates so just letting you know im in the lobby

jjungkookie
✋😒you did not just compare me to yourself

jjungkookie
that is bringing down your beauty SO much

jjungkookie
and yes i dont want you getting attacked by a saesang or something

jjungkookie
wait what if someone saw us

jjungkookie
shit— hyung i don't think i can't deal with my face getting exposed on top of all this

v_95
no jungkook, like yoongi said you are most certainly our level of handsome

v_95
security won't let that happen don't worry and i'm in the elevator now

v_95
hey hey it's alright i think there would already be a ruckus if they did since it's been a while since we initially met

v_95
...if our posts haven't already

v_95
i'm sorry about that again jungkook

jjungkookie
yoongi hyung said WHAT??

jjungkookie
how do you have connection in the elevator hUh

jjungkookie
okay fair point and i already told you not to apologize

jjungkookie
to be honest i knew this would happen to some extent

jjungkookie
so NO MORE SAYING SORRY

v_95
my elevator is just built different 😌

v_95
and yes hyung did say that

v_95
you're so cute aww okay angel no more sorries

v_95
just know i'll protect you

jjungkookie
imagine having THE prince v as your protector

v_95
you don't have to imagine it :)

v_95
im just reaching my floor s|

Taehyung never got to send his last message— not when the elevator doors opened to a distressed Jin dressed in a robe over silk pajamas standing beside a pacing Hoseok by their front door.

And his manager was with them.

"He hasn't been here for three hours!" Jin complained, brows furrowed in anger. "I'm just as concerned as you are, but you think we had something to do with it?"

"He hasn't been responding to me at all since the evening." his manager scowled. "I don't care whether he's here on not, but I know you're lying to me. Get him in line—"

"Tae!" Hoseok was the first to notice him, pushing past the model's manager and rushing to the frozen younger standing just outside the closed elevator doors. Taehyung stumbled at the force of his hyung's hug, and cast his eyes downward with shame when his manager whirled around stared at him with blazing eyes. "Are you okay? You aren't hurt, are you?" The sunshine man held his face gently and checked his figure, ensuring no injuries were obtained before stepping away.

"What?" Taehyung fumbled out. "Why would I be hurt?"

"You haven't responded to any of my calls or messages, Kim Taehyung." His manager snapped and the model was grateful for their flat being the only one on the floor. "Do you know how difficult you—"

"Manager-nim, be glad he's alive and unharmed." Jin cut him off with clenched fists, looking a single snap away from punching the elder man. "You'd be jobless without him."

"Don't threaten me, Seokjin." He scoffed. "I would just be another celebritie's manager, my whole career isn't reliant on him."

"Could the both of you adults not fight here?" Hoseok called out in his sing song voice, Taehyung hid behind him when his manager's attention was on him again. "He's safe and that's what matters."

"I just went out." He murmured. "For a walk... went to the park."

"Met that lousy photographer." His manager finished and Taehyung's eyes shot wide. "It's also my job to keep tabs on you, Taehyung. I saw your post. But had you not muted me, you would have seen my messages about Park Bogum."

"The messages about who?" Jin asked in horror.

Taehyung went numb at the dreaded name, the hair on the back of his neck standing as he hurriedly opened his phone and checked he messages he had indeed muted to keep his mood from being spoiled.

Now that had backfired on him.

Manager
Taehyung, why didn't you pick up the phone?

Manager
Have you eaten dinner? Your diet seems to be doing good for now.

Manager
Kim Taehyung, check your messages this is urgent.

Manager
You need to be on alert.

Manager
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Taehyung was shaking as he opened the link, Jin and Hoseok on either side of him to see what information his manager had sent him.

All of their faces fell like their anchor of safety was snapped away from a boat in the storm of drama.

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Taehyung felt his heart shatter, not bothering to look at the overwhelming comments as desperate 'no's left his lips like a nonstop waterfall on disbelief.

Not only was Park Bogum stirring the past, Taehyung knew he'd be going after Jungkook.

The model may have had top tier security and management, but the young photographer did not.

His ex-lover, who had disgustfully chosen a picture from when Taehyung was furthest under his spell, was crazy and if he couldn't have Taehyung, he wouldn't let anyone else.